一口吃个胖子 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 一口吃個胖子 yīkǒuchīgepàngzi ㄧ ㄎㄡˇ ㄔ ˙ㄍㄜ ㄆㄤˋ ˙ㄗ lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible to be impatient for success Character by character 一(yī)one 口(kǒu)mouth 吃(chī)eat 个(ge)(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier) 胖(pàng)fat 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0